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  "description": "Believes satellite can compete with fiber.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-16T20:35:23.000Z",
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    "_Schwarz argued_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 16, 2025 – Federal Communications Commission Space Bureau Chief **Jay Schwarz** expressed optimism that with a few regulatory tweaks, low-earth orbit satellites may soon be able to deliver fiber-like speeds.\n\nOn a Thursday episode of the American Enterprise Institute’s _Explain to Shane_ Podcast, _Schwarz argued_ that LEO networks are supplying faster internet speeds then “even what is typically considered broadband,” and that with the help of a recently released FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, consumers are “going to see maybe stuff that’s close to what we would consider fiber-like speeds, those sorts of speeds delivered from satellite.”\n\nThat April Notice of Proposed Rulemaking _seeks to review_ the spectrum-sharing framework between geostationary and non-geostationary satellite systems, including equivalent power flux density limits, developed by the International Telecommunication Union in the 1990s.\n\n\n\n_****Panel 1: How Are States Thinking About Reasonable Costs Now?****_\n_****Panel 2: Finding the State Versus Federal Balance in BEAD****_\n _****Panel 3: Reacting to the New BEAD NOFO Guidance****_\n _****Panel 4: Building, Maintaining and Adopting Digital Workforce Skills****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\nThe FCC currently requires NGSOs, including LEOs, operating over U.S. territory to follow the ITU’s EPFD limits, though Schwarz argued that changing those limits could improve the broadband service delivered by NGSOs, though he did not specify what changes he was seeking to implement.\n\nSchwarz wasn’t just high on satellite’s future. He emphasized the impact that satellite internet is having now, noting that it has fostered competition among broadband providers in rural areas and that “it’s not competition that even had to be subsidized.”\n\nSatellite internet has emerged as a viable alternative to _fixed wireless_, and an option for those _without access to fiber_, an emergence driven in large part by the _rise of Starlink_. Schwarz has _previously expressed his interest_ in ensuring that satellite operators have access to adequate spectrum, and reiterated that interest on Thursday.",
  "title": "FCC Space Bureau Chief Bullish on LEO",
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